Where does “kompuroida” come from?
kompuroida (Finnish) comes from Finnish kompura, from Finnish kompressori, from English compressor, from English compress, from Middle French compresse, from Late Latin compressare, from Latin compressus, from Latin comprimō — whale, sea monster; abyss.
kompuroida (Finnish): to stumble
Definitions
- to stumble
Ancestry of “kompuroida”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kompura | clumsy, gawky, hobbling |
| 2 | Finnish | kompressori | compressor device that produces pressure or compresses gases |
| 3 | English | compressor | A device that produces pressure, such as a gas... |
| 4 | English | compress | To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or... |
| 5 | Middle French | compresse | — |
| 6 | Late Latin | compressare | to press hard/together |
| 7 | Latin | compressus | compressed, restrained, repressed |
| 8 | Latin | comprimō | to compress (squeeze together) |
| 9 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 10 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 11 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |